The management of peripheral facial nerve palsy: "paresis" versus "paralysis" and sources of ambiguity in study designs

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-327

  Linder, Thomas E ^a   Abdelkafy, Wael ^b   Cavero Vanek, Sandra ^a  

^a LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bell's palsy; Corticosteroids; Facial palsy; Herpes zoster oticus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOMENCLATURE; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELL PALSY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649094849     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181cabd90     Document Type: Article

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